Commonwealth Community Development Academy

Located at 13477 EUREKA ST, in HAMTRAMCK, Michigan, Commonwealth Community Development Academy is a compact primary school that educates 150 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Commonwealth Community Development Academy. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Commonwealth Community Development Academy sits 59% below that benchmark.

Commonwealth Community Development Academy is a school of Commonwealth Community Development Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Commonwealth Community Development Academy logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 93% of students at Commonwealth Community Development Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Commonwealth Community Development Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Frontier International Academy, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Commonwealth Community Development Academy operates from a downtown location. Commonwealth Community Development Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 184 students in 2018 compared to 150 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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